Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independence, chose the bomb. Most shocking revelation of Japan's fear of Koreans came in the Tokyo earthquake. Then, because the rumor grew that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster to blow up bridges, cut wires, Japanese went into a wave of hysteria that made the Orson Welles broadcast scare look like a session of the Supreme Court. When it was over, at least 500 (perhaps as many as 5,000) Koreans living in Tokyo had been slaughtered...
Gary Cooper took honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...
This is ironically illustrated by what happened at the local Army camp on the lake front. As the radio flashed that Pearl Harbor was being attacked by the Japanese, cracked one soldier: "Orson Welles is drunk again...
Seattle: The atmosphere is getting grim....Portland, Grays Harbor, Seattle and other centers blacked out tonight....There is none of that wild hysteria, such as was produced by Mr. Orson Welles, but people are worried. A woman called the city desk and said she heard sounds of bombings: "I'm not a bit excited," she said, "I just wondered if you heard bombs. ..." On Seattle blackout nights gangs of high-school boys and girls run the streets, yelling "Put out your lights" and having a wonderful time. In the early morning on the way to work no lights...
...considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill U.S. men-create anything resembling the panic created three years ago by Orson Welles's famed faking of a Martian invasion...